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🆕 blog! “It is time to ban email”

I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?

I noticed this story recently:

The Metropolitan Police has apologised to victims of the Westminster "honeytrap" scandal after it accidentally sent an email which named all of them.

the sender, a detective sergeant in the Met’s Diplomatic and Parliamentary Protection uni…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/it-is

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Terence Eden’s Blog · It is time to ban email
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Daniel Appelquist

@Edent I actually do remember using carbon paper to make copies - back when I was in middle school, I think? Or it may have been a ditto machine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_d

en.wikipedia.orgSpirit duplicator - Wikipedia

@torgo @Edent i was so disappointed to lean why it was called a spirit duplicator

@torgo @Edent

I'm old enough to remember ditto machines as well. That's how we produced my elementary school newspaper in the 70s.